Linux Mint 8 Helena

by zzillezz on November 30, 2009

Linux Mint is an elegant, easy to use, up to date and comfortable GNU/Linux desktop distribution.  The 8th release of Linux Mint comes with numerous bug fixes and a lot of improvements. If you want to have a taste of (…)

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Pidgin 2.6.4

by zzillezz on November 30, 2009

Pidgin is an instant messaging program for Windows, Linux, BSD, and other Unixes. You can talk to your friends using AIM, ICQ, Jabber/XMPP, MSN Messenger, Yahoo!, Bonjour, Gadu-Gadu, IRC, Novell GroupWise Messenger, QQ, Lotus Sametime, SILC, SIMPLE, and Zephyr. Pidgin (…)

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Paint.NET 3.5.1

by zzillezz on November 20, 2009

Paint.NET is free image and photo editing software for computers that run Windows. It features an intuitive and innovative user interface with support for layers, unlimited undo, special effects, and a wide variety of useful and powerful tools. An active (…)

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PeaZip 2.8

by zzillezz on November 20, 2009

Almost every computer has a file archiving / extracting tool. Wether is was PK zip under DOS, WinZip under Windows 95, or WinRAR, 7-Zip, PowerArchiver in current times. As you know, I strongly believe in, and encourage the use of, (…)

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Linux Mint 8 Helena RC1

by zzillezz on November 13, 2009

Linux Mint is a linux distribution based on Ubuntu but with a custom desktop and menus, several unique configuration tools, a web-based package installation interface, and a number of different editions. They try to provide an elegant Linux desktop, with (…)

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Mozilla Firefox 3.6 beta 2

by zzillezz on November 11, 2009

Firefox is an open source browser for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. Firefox 3.6 Beta is built on Mozilla’s Gecko 1.9.2 web rendering platform, which has been under development for several months and contains many improvements for web developers, (…)

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Paint.NET 3.5

by zzillezz on November 8, 2009

Paint.NET is free image and photo editing software for computers that run Windows. It features an intuitive and innovative user interface with support for layers, unlimited undo, special effects, and a wide variety of useful and powerful tools. An active (…)

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Mozilla Firefox 3.6 beta 1

by zzillezz on November 1, 2009

Firefox is an open source browser for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. The 3.6 series has some improvements on Windows 7, better support for open video, WOFF font support. The most obvious will be the new skins, called Personas, (…)

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VLC media player 1.0.3

by zzillezz on November 1, 2009

VideoLAN is an excellent multimedia player with it’s own plugins for playing different formats, so it doesn’t need any codecs to be installed. It works great for previewing partially downloaded files too as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming (…)

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